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Dishing the Dirt on CP soils There is a lot of controversy over just which soils are best for certain types of CP's. Some growers prefer perlite, some prefer sphagnum, some plants just really don't seem to care, so exactly what is it that makes a type of soil good for CP's? Read on and find...

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Some time back I had an aphid infestation. I dug up all my woolys, rubbed em underwater in a tank, and left them soaking in a tank for an hour. I repotted everything in sphagnum + perlite and placed them in a terrarium under 16 hours of light daily. 10,000 lux. Here's a pictoral update of them...

Although I grow quite a few carnivorous plants, I have never grown pinguicula. However, about 2 months ago a friend bought one for me from a local Wal-Mart. Of course it is unlabeled and I have no idea what it is. I repotted it immediately because the leaves were long and rangy and the plant...

It seems like people often want to grow VFTs in a terrarium, and that seems puzzling to me. They don't need it, and a terrarium introduces various problems such as stagnant water, stagnant unmoving air, concentration of fungal spores, overheating in sunlight, etc. At least that's the way it...

I've been stumped on this one for a few years now and finally decided to ask... Are any of you are using clay pots in your Nep chambers/terrariums? I have tried several times in the past and usually within a few days the pot is covered in some weird looking funguses so I have to get rid of them...

ok, i've got a nice new 5-gallon tank set up at school now, recently stocked with a young (1-inch) oranda goldfish. three days after i got him, he developed a tiny blackish spot on the tip of his dorsal fin. that hasn't gotten any bigger, but now he's got similar dark streaks at the ends of his...

Ok so finally i got everything situated and I noticed that my ventratas basal shoot has a thin black line going down it. I have two ideas of what this could be...1. new leaf sprouting(most likely) or 2. fungal/ bactrial/ etc. thing. I am almost absolutly sure its a new leaf, but just to be sure...

I've been growing Nepenthes from seed for many years now, and I've found that they can take several months to germinate, but that good, fresh seed can take as little 28 days (well, for the highland species that I grow, anyway). But I sowed a heap of seed of various highland species on 1...

I'm really interested to figure out why I can grow Drosera perfectly outdoors (that part I understand), in a terrarium they die off, but if I put them in a mini-terrarium (a small plastic cube, like you would store a beanie baby in) or small completely enclosed just about air tight container...

<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>A Consideration of Peat Quality As It Affects CP Horticulture</span></span> <span style='color:blue'>by William Dawnstar</span> CP horticulturalists employ many different substances in their mixes such as are appropriate to...

PROPAGATING MEXICAN PINGUICULA by Joseph Clemens ------------------------------------ The following is my Mexican Pinguicula propagating technique. This is my basic technique, which I tweak and modify when ideas occur to me. First: I pull ½ or more of the leaves from plants I am...

I have some nice sarrs that I'm really happy with. They are gorgeous and fascinating plants. However.... I've noticed that some of them are pitchering(rubras) and then the lids start browning out almost immediately. Is this an indication of a fungal infection? I have an S x areolata in the same...

Today is NOT a good day. I just returned from a trip to find that my patio mini-bog of 4 years appears to be the victim of a fungal infection. It's the usual signs - wilted leaves; dead leaves; and, most notable, rhizomes that have turned brown and spongy, with just a few living white roots...

when i received my n. campanulata from malesiana tropicals it had black spots on the lower leaves, see photo below. then one of the new leaves started to turn black. and now the newest pitcher is turning. can anyone identify the problem? it looks like a fungal infection to me, and...

Hi, I've noticed some rust colored deposits on the underside of my Alata's leaves. Could this be a fungal infection? Anything to help control or eliminate this problem? Thanks

I've got some D. nitidula ssp. omissa x D. pulchella, D. pulchella x nitidula, and D. nitidula ssp. allantostigma x D. ericksoniae growing from gemmae received from KingDom079. I sowed them on 1/21/05 and had been growing them in plastic bags near a sunny window. All the little plants looked...

Greetings! I have several "kajillion" newly-germinated seedlings from a cross of Nepenthes spathulata x N. maxima that I made earlier this year. These chaps are crowded into several translucent plastic culture boxes, on NZ sphagnum. All the boxes are now open in bright shade, and I've been...

I know everyone does things differenetly but there must be some general guidlines I'm just not following. Heres my situation. I've killed two P. morenensis plants within a few months of getting them! I now have a P. laueana (sp) and I sure don't want this to go down the same road!!! I am...

Greetings: I have been growing Cephalotus outside here in Guatemala for about 5 years. While I have managed to grow them well to a certain size (rosettes about 20 cm across), each year about this time (during the lull in the rainy season), I ALWAYS lose my biggest plants to what I presume is a...